Archive for the 'Life' Category
Poor Willow
It’s storming here again.
As soon as it started raining I ran out on the balcony for urgent, strategic Jade Tree placement. Dubbed ‘Jade Willow’ by Dan, who has a fascination with naming all plants after a certain red-headed witch, it’s been with me less than a month and it’s already starting [...]
Storyline
Ho-hum.
I’ve finished the first draft of my alien invasion story, though to be honest, it’s not really ‘finished’ so much as I arrived at an interesting ending that really doesn’t have anything to do with the beginning. This is nothing new for me – I end up reverse engineering a lot of my fiction. I’ll [...]
Doctor Recommended
From The New Smengland Journal of Medicine:
It is essential to have a gap in time that separates and signifies the end of one event and the start of another. A vital part of any transformation, this period of time is referred to “vacation” or, in the colloquial, “slacking”. This time should be spent [...]
chillin’
I’ve started a new story, something along the lines of a forbidden love observed by a god-like being who looks like a muscular Willie Nelson. Contemplating a POV switch as godWillie is turning out a little more creepy and voyeuristic than I would like.
Looking much forward to the return of husband, [...]
Coffeeee
Dan came back from Seattle last night – just for the weekend, but even a short visit is a welcome one. He brought me back a couple pounds of coffee from Tully’s , the last independent Seattle-pedigreed coffee company. (cough-Starbucksisasellout-cough)
When I spent last summer in the U-district, I found the Tully’s there [...]